30 Bible Verses about obeying

Wherefore, my beloved, as you have always obey'd the gospel, not only when I was with you, but much more now while I am absent, continue the work of your own salvation, whatever persecutions you apprehend:

Jesus answered him, he that loves me, will observe my precepts: and my father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

if ye love me, keep my commandments.

Servants, be obedient to your legal masters, with awful reverence and sincerity of heart, as unto Christ:

now love consists in the practice of the divine precepts. this is the precept you have originally receiv'd, as the rule of your conduct.

You set out well in your course: who hath obstructed your progress in the truth?

Confide in your guides, and be respectful: that they who are vigilant, as being accountable for your souls, may discharge themselves with cheerfulness, and not with anxiety, which would be to your prejudice.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, by making you slaves to the lusts thereof.

Children, obey your christian parents: for this is the law.

for our love of God consists in the observation of his precepts: precepts that are far from being grievous.

by no means. know ye not, that to whom ye subject your selves vassals at command, his vassals you are whom you thus obey; the vassals either of sin to destruction, or of obedience to justification?

but rather, said he, happy are they who hear the word of God, and put it in practice.

this one thing I desire to know of you, did you receive the spirit by the works of the law, or by the gospel preach'd to you?

such was Sarah, who show'd her obeysance to Abraham, by stiling him her Lord: and you will be stiled her children, if you imitate her conduct, and are not to be terrified out of your virtue.

then Peter and the other apostles made answer, we ought to obey God rather than men.

If, agreeably to the scriptures, you observe that royal law, "thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self," you do well.

and we are his witnesses in what we say, and so is the holy spirit, whom God hath given to those that obey him.

you see how manageable horses are made by the application of a bit, which makes them take what motion we please.

he that says, he knows him, and does not keep his commandments, is a lyar, and an enemy to the truth:

but he that observes his precepts, loves God with a true and perfect love: 'tis by this we know that we are truly christians.

if we keep his commandments, that is a proof that we know him.

but he answered them, my mother and brethren are these, who attend to the word of God, and practise it.

children, obey your parents upon all occasions, for that is graceful in a christian.

but they that rest themselves upon the works of the law, are obnoxious to the curse: for it is written, " cursed is every one, who continueth not in all things, which are written in the book of the law, to do them:"

in flaming fire, to take vengeance on those, who know not God, and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

and his whole exterior showing nothing more than a meer man, he abased himself, and carried his submission so far as to die, even the death of the cross.